Parisul Noaptea Quotes & Sayings

Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light. — Terry Goodkind

So convinced was he that the external world was the result of a vast deception practised upon him by the gross senses, that when he stared at a great building like St. Paul's he felt it would not very much surprise him to see it suddenly quiver like a shape of jelly and then melt utterly away, while in its place stood all at once revealed the mass of colour, or the great intricate vibrations, or the splendid sound - the spiritual idea - which it represented in stone. — Algernon Blackwood

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. — Edwidge Danticat

Our directives must be reassessed. — Kane

The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend. — Michal Kalecki

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. — Robert Breault

There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers. — Bernice Johnson Reagon

Time is a great teacher,
Who can live without hope? — Carl Sandburg

The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not prisoners anymore ... Tati taught me how to observe, how to sit in a cafe in Paris and to look at the passersby and to guess what their story is, even a little moment of their story ... — Jean-Claude Carriere

To lessen or destroy sexual pleasure is to lessen temptation; a fallback in case the religious injunctions on veiling and seclusion somehow fail to do the job. — Geraldine Brooks

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could. — Minoru Yamasaki

I don't sweat the Internet. You know, it's still something I enjoy as a movie geek myself to get on and, like, look at all the websites; however, when it comes to marketing a movie, the Internet is still not the thing that gets people to the theatre. — Michael De Luca